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TechnoparkToday.com Trivandrum, 29th February, 2012: Flytxt, the global technology leader in mobile marketing and campaign management, announced today that Zantel, one of the fastest growing telecom operators in Tanzania, has selected Flytxt for its subscriber engagement initiative. The comprehensive mobile campaign management platform from Flytxt with advanced analytics capabilities will enable Zantel to provide right offers to the right subscribers …

The second Campus of Infoys is coming up near Technocity, Trivandrum. The new campus would be around 1.5 million square feet. Infosys approached the kerala Govt for 50 acres of land in technocity for building the state of the art campus. The entry of Infosys and TCS Global training campus, in 86 Acres will definitely encourage more IT Giants to start their …

It is reported that the technopark convoy got attacked this morning.  Even the police protection were not effective since the harthal supporters tried to manhandled some of  the technopark employees, and flattened their car tires. Photo Courtesy: Pramod PS    

Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, announces expansion of its Thiruvananthapuram operations to accommodate its significant corporate growth. Aptara’s new Technopark office will be home to 1,200 employees, 600 of which are new positions. Aptara provides content creation, design and production services to 9 of the 10 largest publishers in the world including McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, …

Japan based Mitsubishi Electric Corporation a major player in electrical and electronic equipments and NeST, a premier provider of specialized software and engineering services based on technopark, trivandrum have announced the setting up of an exclusive development center. The Center was inaugurated on Friday by Hiroyuki Morikane Head, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. This exclusive development centre located at NeST Towers inside …

According to some confidential sources, it is reported that the global IT giant, Accenture is coming to Technopark, Trivandrum.  Mr. Sasi Tharoor tweeted about this sometimes back, and it seems the preparations are on going on full throttle to start the operations of Accenture in Technopark campus. After the Oracle, HCL, Capgemini, the arrival of Accenture will give an additional mileage to the capital city’s …

Windows Phone Camp is coming to Trivandrum on 29th Feb, 2012. Windows Phone Camps is where you – Developers and Designers, can directly interact with domain experts. These experts will share their knowledge with you, answer your questions and help you with your future Windows Phone app or game. Avail this free opportunity to learn from the notable names of …

Lepeesh Parat, the founder and CEO of Technopark Trivandrum-based Zesty Beanz Technologies has won the “Star Entrepreneur Award” at the 5th Indira International Innovation Summit held in Pune in January this year. The award was conferred on Parat in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the area of entrepreneurship and innovation. The award consists of a trophy and a …

Software testing company Thinksoft Global Services, a software testing company, has won a Rs. 50 million project from the Reserve Bank of India for offering end-to-end user acceptance testing programme. As per the deal, Thinksoft would be responsible for full project management including test strategy, planning, and execution. It would also provide an automated test pack for RBI using its …

It will be yet another happiest moment for the IT enthusiasts and job aspirants in Kerala when the French IT Giant & the biggest IT company in Europe, “Capgemini” to start functioning from Technopark, Trivandrum. But the official announcement is yet to publish. It is understood unofficially that “Capgemini” will soon start functioning from Leela Infopark in the Technopark Campus, …

MobME Wireless, Innoz Technologies and Flytxt, all headquartered at the Technopark Trivandrum, feature in the Nasscom’s list of 50 top emerging IT companies in the country this calendar year. MobME Wireless and Flytxt have been chosen in the Emerge Innovation category and Innoz Technologies in the Emerge Start-ups category, said a Nasscom release.

“Until we came here, we didn’t know that no workday of Technopark was affected by hartal.” This statement was made by NASSCOM chairman Rajendra Pawar, he was speaking during media interaction after opening its regional office at Technopark. The fact that Technopark remains uninterrupted during hartal amused the NASSCOM executive members.  They said that there was negative impression on Kerala …

Advanced Training on GNU/R Launched as First Event in 10th Anniversary Celebrations of FOSS in Kerala. Free and Open Source tools were eminently suited to stimulate employment in the IT Industry, said Mr. Satish Babu, Director, ICFOSS, Technopark, Trivandrum. He was inaugurating the two-day Advanced Training programme in GNU/R, jointly organized by ICFOSS and the Department of Statistics, University of …

Infosys has created an interactive social networking portal to keep the employees networked, called Infosys Bubble. The social networking platform is said to be on the lines of leading social network platform Facebook and will cater exclusively to Infosys employees to share her/his views, pictures, moods and blogs among Infosys employees. The social networking platform was launched in June and …

Indian IT giant Wipro has announced a salary hike of 12-15 percent for its Indian employees and 2-4 percent for its overseas employees, effective from June 1. The announcement regarding pay hikes came by as Wipro reported a 14 percent year-on-year rise in net profit for the January-March quarter in line with the market trends. The company reported a net …

Technopark based RM Education Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (RMESI), a fully owned subsidiary of RM plc UK, has achieved the coveted BS 25999 certification. The certificate was awarded under UKAS accreditation following a rigorous audit by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Speaking on the occasion, Mr Connell Viegas, CEO of RMESI, said: “RMESI has always focused on best practices across …

Infosys, India’s number 2 IT services company has announced its plans to recruit 45,000 people in this financial year.   The company has made 26,000 offers at campus for financial year 2012. The company, with a total workforce of 130,820 people, has added 8,930 employees (gross) in the quarter. The company has also managed to bring down its attrition levels to …

Soon after the announcement of its HR Director Mohandas Pai’s decision to resign from the company and its Board of Directors, Infosys has inducted former Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan into its board of directors as an additional director of the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Venkatesan worked for over 17 years with Cummins.  The announcements came on a day when …